Outlook 2003 Questions


Purge Sent Items and Deleted Items folder in Outlook 2003 every 180 days
I have a user that would like Outlook 2003 to delete items in the Sent Items and Deleted Items folder after 180 days. The issue is that we have disabled the Auto-Archive feature, policy, and can’t use any of that. Is there a way around it? Or is the user stuck doing this manually? Thank [...]

Answer Question   |  July 7, 2009  1:09 AM
Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook Deleted Items Folder, Outlook send/receive, Outlook Sent Items
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5 pts.

Problem with outlook – help!!!!
My outlook has stopped me sending e-mails, they return not from administrator with message 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA. When I looked at my e-mail accounts and try to send a test message I’m told to verify my e-mail address. Help!!!

Answer Question   |  July 6, 2009  5:48 PM
Outlook 2003, Outlook error messages, Outlook Errors, Outlook send/receive
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Aid
15 pts.

User Can’t see GAL (Outlook 2003/Exchange 5.5)
I have a user on one of my sites that cannot see the company GAL. This particular site is running Outlook 2003 as the email client, and Exchange 5.5. I am new to Exchange, and I realise this is a very old version of Exchange, I would appreciate any pointers. thanks.

Answer Question   |  June 29, 2009  11:55 AM
Exchange 5.5, Exchange administration, GAL, Global Address Lists, Outlook, Outlook 2003
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5 pts.

Outlook 2003 archive repair tool
First the environment is XP SP3, Office 03 SP3, Exchange 03 SP2. My question is does anyone know how or if there is a tool to repair and or recover an 8 gig archive. It is a new installation, trying to pull over the archive, and it just keeps checking the archive for errors, takes [...]

Answer Question   |  July 7, 2009  3:26 PM
Exchange 2003, Office 2003, Outlook 2003, Outlook archive, Outlook Archive Repair, Windows XP
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1,810 pts.

Multiple Outlook sessions
anyone have a fix for the issue with multiple outlook sessions created on the exchange server? it creates event 9646 in the application log on the exchange server. i’ve tried increasing the limit and hard setting the network speed, no change. We don’t have any third party addins installed. Seems to only happen with notebooks [...]

Answer Question   |  June 24, 2009  3:41 PM
Event ID 9646, Exchange 2003, Multiple Outlook Sessions, Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook Sessions
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460 pts.

How to restore an archived folder in Outlook 2003
Currently, one employee lost his contacts but he has an arcade folder in which he wants to restore it. Is it realy possible to restore an arcade folder if so can someone help me out . Thanks!!!!

Answer Question   |  May 23, 2011  3:16 PM
Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook archive, Outlook Backup
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90 pts.

out of office permissions – MS Outlook 2003
Hi, Is there any way to set permissions so that another user can set up an out of office from thier own account? Example: A manager goes on holiday and forgets to type up and switch on thier out of office. If the secretary has full access to the Managers inbox, is there any way [...]

Answer Question   |  July 7, 2009  1:12 PM
Out of Office Assistant, Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook Delegates, Outlook Out of Office, Outlook permissions
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5 pts.

meeting request on Blackberry calendar not showing up if delegtei accepts that
We are experiencing Meeting request issue on the blackberry device. We use BES 4.0 and Outlook 2003. User’s calendar is manage by her assistant and when assistant accepts the meeting request on user’s behalf it doesnt reflect on User’s blackberry. Any one has clue on this?

Answer Question   |  December 9, 2009  4:35 PM
BES, BlackBerry, BlackBerry 8830, BlackBerry Calendar, BlackBerry Exchange Server, Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook calendar, Outlook meetings
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10 pts.

Outlook 2003 clients connectivity issues
Hi, Ok here is the issue our outlook clients recieve errors “error connecting to (GC)” and “error trying to retrieve data from exchange server” We also have system hangs when opening other users calenders. This is not every user but a large amount of them. Usebase is around 1200 And our setup is a central [...]

Answer Question   |  June 12, 2009  10:33 AM
Exchange 2003, Global Catalog, Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2003 error messages, Outlook Connectivity, RPC
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5 pts.

Microsoft Outlook attachment not found when sender uses CC
When sender sends me any mail with attachment, i am anable to recieve the mail. Sender marks me as cc. then only it creates a problem pls help me regarding that issue.

Answer Question   |  June 15, 2009  8:34 AM
Carbon copy, Microsoft Outlook 2003, Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook attachments
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5 pts.

2003 Outlook sending errors
just installed 03 Office and have Vista Op syst. Getting errors 0x800CCC0B & 0x8004210B when sending emails. Receive fine.

Answer Question   |  June 9, 2009  1:30 PM
0x8004210B, 0x800CCC0B, Outlook 2003, Outlook error messages, Outlook send/receive
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5 pts.

Cannot open shared calendars
We are using Outlook 2003 to access e-mail on Exchange (SBS 2003). When we atempt to open a shared calendar, the name we enter is converted to an e-mail address from the contact list (which is the same as the mailbox name in Exchange) but we get an error message saying that the user does [...]

Answer Question   |  June 17, 2009  6:12 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange Shared Calendars, Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2003 calendar, Outlook Shared Calendar
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70 pts.

Outlook 2003: issue with Tasks
Hi there, Major issue with not being able to use Tasks: I get the following error message when I click ‘Save’ having filled out a Task form: “Please save the task order by clicking Save Task Order on the Actions menu in the “Tasks” folder. The view must not be filtered or grouped for Save [...]

Answer Question   |  June 5, 2009  4:57 AM
Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2003 Tasks
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50 pts.

Exchange client Inbox Empty, in OWA also. Effecting all clients.
Using SBS 2003 Exchange, SP2 and Outlook client 2003. The Inbox is empty, even though messages were sent, and visible within the Sent Items. The message has got to another mailbox, as the increment has increased. This also effect OWA. However, if I move a message from Sent Items and place into the Inbox., it [...]

Answer Question   |  June 17, 2009  10:24 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 SP2, Outlook, Outlook 2003, SBS 2003
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5 pts.

Can’t reply to an e-mail
Strange problem here: we running Outlook 2003 and there’s one user with a unique problem. He can email my boss who uses AOL email and my boss can receive it with no problem but when he tries to reply he gets the following message: Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 n53DbCwM005305 This message does not comply with [...]

Answer Question   |  January 17, 2012  2:22 PM
Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook error messages, Outlook send/receive
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5 pts.

Outlook Calendar
when I update my outlook calendar it is not going to all the attendees and when I send out and invite no everyone is getting it

Answer Question   |  July 8, 2009  3:13 PM
Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook calendar, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional
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15 pts.

Outlook 2003 Notes are missing
I am running Outlook 2003 SP3 under Vista Home and synchronizing my contacts, calendar and notes to two HP Ipaqs using Windows Mobile Device Centre. Other than some strange duplicate copies of notes, I have had not problems until just now when all my noteshave disappeared from Outlook. they remain intact on the IPAQ, but [...]

Answer Question   |  July 28, 2011  5:47 PM
Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook Notes
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5 pts.

User Can See Others Outlook Calendar Entry Details
I have a user who can see the calendar entries of other users, not just that the time is blocked but the details of the event. Checked AD, group memberships, etc, and the user does not appear to have elevated privileges of any kind, is not an Exchange admin, domain admin, etc. She has not [...]

Answer Question   |  May 31, 2009  7:13 PM
Exchange 2003, Outlook, Outlook 2000, Outlook 2003, Outlook Calendar Permissions, Windows Server 2003
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16,755 pts.

Microsoft Outlook 2003 archiving
I have a quistion? I am using ms outlook 2007 for my email. now there is 5000 mails in my inbox. The thing is i want to move these all mails to a folder how? and another thing after i moved i need to get my new emails only, not all the emails how i [...]

Answer Question   |  May 28, 2009  8:43 AM
Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2003 archive
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160 pts.

User getting Outlook 2003 error
I am getting a problem in Outlook. Actually the problem is in mail service. It is opening but when I press the send/receive button, a message comes “Outlook has encountered a problem and need to close”. I checked all the settings and the settings are same as Yesterday(when it was working). Please note that same [...]

Answer Question   |  June 17, 2009  7:57 AM
Outlook, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2003 error messages
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135 pts.